Motivational Quotes

Laughter

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Laughter

1.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

2.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

3.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

5.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

6.

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

8.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

9.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

10.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

11.

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

13.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

14.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

17.

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Thurber, James

18.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

20.

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

21.

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Byron, Lord

23.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

25.

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Chesterfield, Lord

26.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

28.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

29.

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

30.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

31.

If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

33.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

34.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

35.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

36.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

37.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

38.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

39.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

40.

We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

41.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

42.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

43.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

44.

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

45.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

46.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

47.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

49.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

50.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver